I have been quite busy lately. I have spend four days away from home in another city to study more about dogs. I have learned so much! Even though I enjoy these courses it’s just so exhausting to be away from home, away from my pets. And when there’s lots of things going on in your life you just get tired. Normal everyday life is great and I wish our family would get more of those days when there are no crises, no sadness or bad stress. I think we have had all of that bad stuff enough for couple of years. Now even my body is saying that I have to rest, right now! I’m rarely sick and now this fever just won’t go away…

When one of our gerbil, Valo got sick I was trying to be optimistic. But no matter what I did, it just wasn’t enough. Valo had a tumor, so we had to let him go. I know its part of life that we die, but still it felt like Valo was too young. I started thinking about my pets and the way I care for them. No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try to do everything right, I always end up loosing. But like I said, that’s just part of life and my job is to make sure that the life these animals have is as good as possible. It’s not about how many days we all have; it’s about the quality of those days.

And life goes on. We have a new family member, new gerbil. We call him “O-P” Oopperan kummitus (The Phantom of the Opera). Also new gerbil babies were born. There’s so much life in our house right know.